While Melbourne shivered through icy winter weather last week, the Bureau of Meteorology quietly raised the country’s El Nino status from ‘alert’ to ‘El Nino’. This means that southeast Australia can expect below-average rainfall over winter and spring, and an unusally hot summer to follow.
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The last time Victoria experienced El Nino conditions was during the millennium drought, which culminated in the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009. In addition to the catastrophic human impacts of drought, 'El Nino' is really bad news for our rivers.
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